Daily Answers

1-across – Deity and prince direct : MARSHAL

5-across – Sticker insect attached to mammal : SEALANT

9-across – A chevron in a figure behind curved shape,really? : DOMEA

10-across – Permitted furniture in retirement home? : GRANTABLE

11-across – Tedious,anything but in the wisdom of cattle? : MONOTONOUS

12-across – Bone first of all in upper legs? No,arms : ULNA

14-across – Cuts of beef taken from this,say what oughta go with knife? : FOREQUARTER

18-across – In this,leader flies solo round outskirts of Chile? : AIRFORCEONE

21-across – Question posed by Buddhist,right out of holy book : KOAN

22-across – One gets squeezed in front of carriage as soon as train moves : CONCERTINA

25-across – Designer range of beers with one exported? : LAGERFELD

26-across – Smack heel in disco dance : TANGO

27-across – Stripper managed to break a joint,bending backwards : PIRANHA

28-across – Criminal taking the lower street,one going straight on the outside? : RUSTLER

1-down – Title earned,a first in medicine secured : MADAME

2-down – Incarcerate bishop for example in robes of cardinal? : REMAND

3-down – The fool had nuts,fruit and veg etc : HEALTHFOOD

4-down – Personal details with which leader in government accesses sensitive area? : LOGIN

5-down – Energy repeatedly drained from dignified old band : STATUSQUO

6-down – Wheels in a sofa bed sheared off : AUTO

7-down – A charger dropping tail in familiar walk : AMBULATE

8-down – Books everyone can see wrapped in the Indian cloth : THESAURI

13-down – Sweat produced collecting land tax once : WATERRATES

15-down – A theatre fine,well set up for musical performance : ROCKOPERA

16-down – Acrobatic flick in roll? : BACKFLIP

17-down – Florist,say,arrives and rose finally pulled from wreath? : ARRANGER

19-down – Indication in slang I screwed up : SIGNAL

20-down – See 9 Across : FAVOUR

23-down – Person encrypting information ending on the radio? : CODER

24-down – Label cut for breakfast food : BRAN

7-across – Staying at school and getting on : BOARDING

9-across – Sound from horse in pound : NICKER

10-across – See 2 Down : VOTE

11-across – I’m drunk,ruining winter coat : TONICWATER

12-across – Item left in car : COUPLE

14-across – Vain,going round in socks? : BOOTLESS

15-across – Lethal agent ruins nice day : CYANIDE

17-across – Offer support,but fail to intervene : STANDBY

20-across – Hang on – that is what my wife wears : LINGERIE

22-across – This is why I say your views are unacceptable : HERESY

23-across – Vegetable cooking,no wine : CHARDONNAY

24-across – Lifting this aboard requires muscle from the start and amazing stamina : MAIN

25-across – US state 75% the size of another : KANSAS

26-across – These people welcome girl back in region of Greece : THESSALY

1-down – Game is my sole possession : MONOPOLY

2-down – Veto suggested for one avoiding whipping : FREE

3-down – Smallest digit? I beg to differ : BIGTOE

4-down – Quickly produce stunning victory in cup match : KNOCKOUT

5-down – Deceptive reliance on the second Queen Mary,say : OCEANLINER

6-down – Society regularises rugby code : SEVENS

8-down – Accepted as authority and passed : GONEBY

13-down – One extravagantly praising various grain types : PANEGYRIST

16-down – Clean room no benefit for one out all winter : DORMOUSE

18-down – Receptacle for cash in low-class prison : BASTILLE

19-down – Vulcan a fool? Be serious! : MEANIT

21-down – Receptive when it’s scorching : INHEAT

22-down – Boisterous youngster’s Orkney retreat? : HOYDEN

24-down – See 24 Across : MAST

5-across – Maybe like a microphone trick to smother insolence : CLIPON

6-across – Cut around soft spot : SPLASH

9-across – Keen officer hugging ace soldiers : LAMENT

10-across – Place where you’ll find people who are little and large – bad place for one to be in : LILLIPUT

11-across – ‘Moneymaker’ that may grow in the garden : MINT

12-across – I’m dire pest to be given spray? : SPIDERMITE

13-across – Fitting a number into sheltered accommodation to the east of a very quiet old city : APPURTENANT

18-across – Creep is dodgy when capturing photo? Don’t step too close to these! : PRECIPICES

21-across – Sound asleep,having abandoned party : ZING

22-across – Fellow introducing singer Bobby is a bigwig : MANDARIN

23-across – Correspondence from one in political organisation : PARITY

24-across – Reportedly top vehicle for winter conditions : SLEIGH

25-across – Uncultivated,like a Ted of yesteryear? : HEATHY

1-down – Bypass – is speed limit finally reduced? : SIDESTEP

2-down – Pharmacist stocking drug gets stars : BOOTES

3-down – Rascal observed penning pages about gangster : SPALPEEN

4-down – Element of hospital meal,mostly very dry,eaten by tramp? : BARIUM

5-down – Brainboxes managed to penetrate spy agency : CRANIA

7-down – Troubles in hotel with relatives : HAUNTS

8-down – Silence poet conjured up in a time long ago : PLEISTOCENE

14-down – Act of sports official – superior male with holy anger : UMPIRAGE

15-down – Religious type with extreme characters in an uplifting ceremony : NAZARITE

16-down – Old coins found in grain : GROATS

17-down – Snobbish as pig away from home apparently! : SNOTTY

19-down – Club characters regularly coming in could get on well together : CUDGEL

20-down – The old man’s upset,a soldier : SAPPER

1-across – Meeting record takes order for food : MINUTE

4-across – See 1 : STEAKS

9-across – Prime minister’s garden : EDEN

10-across – Suggestion of heartless bullying : INTIMATION

11-across – Travelling Brits love a French eatery : BISTRO

12-across – One each afterwards held as unskilled : INEXPERT

13-across – Perhaps I’m grabbed,grabbed by hint of colour : CAMBRIDGE

15-across – See 13 : BLUE

16-across – Armenians oddly out of control : REIN

17-across – How to remove plaster and succeed : PULLITOFF

21-across – Ballot of sporting venue? : FOOTBALL

22-across – See 21 : GROUND

24-across – Revered like this clue,promoting the end can’t change : SACROSANCT

25-across – Backing of shops for public transport : TRAM

26-across – Gallery has welcomed reactionary party till now : TODATE

27-across – Having lost weight,student lost heart : LEANER

1-down – Wine and cheese served up by republicans : MADEIRA

2-down – Group problem playing tennis? : NONET

3-down – Port,originally in Libya,is needing renovation : TRIPOLI

5-down – A term composition to include piano and fiddle : TAMPER

6-down – George’s dysfunctional utopia followed by many : AUTOPILOT

7-down – Rush to contain firm’s misfortune : SCOURGE

8-down – Paint technique can feature in fraud : STRINGPULLING

14-down – Celebrity starts to eat dinner,with bubbles : BLISTERED

16-down – City needs diplomacy to make an undiplomatic declaration : RIOTACT

18-down – One benefits from entry in shelter : LEGATEE

19-down – Florida’s capital not just an amusement park : FUNFAIR

20-down – Dog breeder’s primary advantage : BASSET

23-down – Decimal,many times : OFTEN

1-across – Distress in hearing – stop being crooked : STRAITEN

6-across – One of your relatives gift wraps a book! : BABOON

9-across – Journalist: Balls maybe yellow after sex : EDITOR

10-across – Excessively complimented pornographic actor’s first lines – 9 must be abbreviated : ADULATED

11-across – Ordnance Survey cutting about page in misprinted A-to-Z – it’s a gem : ROSETOPAZ

13-across – Misses sleep on board ship : SKIPS

15-across – Unknown firm taken on by heavyweight businessman : TYCOON

17-across – Dawn French to the rescue – often raising awareness for starters : AURORA

18-across – Former opponent gutted about discharged cruise missile : EXOCET

19-across – Goes off instruction to make nice e-readers? : ADDLES

21-across – Dislodge key : SHIFT

22-across – Lad struggling with issue including,ultimately,combat fatigue : LASSITUDE

25-across – E.coli must,mostly,spread in bowl : COLISEUM

26-across – Bond villain,Jaws essentially breaking back to get ahead : ONWARD

28-across – Ship leaves Selsey after dropping off some bits : VESSEL

29-across – Volunteers,once in the forces,not against shocking treatment? : TASERING

2-down – Small amount of time with Bill : TAD

3-down – Hates playing brag – turned out friends accepting bluff directly : ASTHE

4-down – Start old games console – knob needed to spin around : TURNONONES

5-down – New supermarket stops Marmite supply – almost! : NEARAS

6-down – Number 24 buses do use buckles : BLUE

7-down – Lancashire landmark seen when Cilla,say takes in middle of Bolton : BLACKPOOL

8-down – 10 deliveries brought up under pressure : OVERPRAISED

12-down – Touching article cast read aloud for sovereign : ONTHETHRONE

14-down – See 6 : SUEDESHOES

16-down – See 3 : CROWFLIES

20-down – See 5 : DAMMIT

23-down – See 7 : TOWER

24-down – See 4 : HEEL

27-down – Premier Cru can finally flow : RUN